A couple weeks ago I posted about the separation surgery for local conjoined twins.
Today's Post reports that the girls have gone home from the hospital.
I was reading the newspaper (the actual physical paper instead on the online version) the other day and as I turned each page I started adding up the death toll...in the hundreds in some article, one or two in stories about specific instances. One that stuck in my mind was a father who shot his disabled adult son and then himself; sources said the father was overwhelmed and despondant trying to care for the son, who'd been injured in, if I remember correctly, a bar fight.
I don't want to ignore that this is the world I live in, and I don't want to become numb to it, either. But I think sometimes I've become a bit hypersensitized, and I end up crying while reading the paper on the Metro.
That's why I'm so focused on stories like the twins. I could get into discussion of medical economics but I'm not, and I'm not thinking about that on purpose. I'm thinking about the joy and relief of the family, the skill of the medical teams, the knowledge they gained treating the girls, and mostly, of two little babies with a lifetime of potential.
Posted by Nic at July 3, 2004 08:13 AM